The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Around the World on a Bicycle. BY
Thomas Stevens. Vol L Riavsumg over
the well kaessroa Of asettled and thrifty
ssssUn, Where the wheelnan finds towns and
villages lying near each other, is recognized
as pleasurable means of locomotion. A
| journey on a bicycle around the world.
| where much of the course must be through
| the countries of semi-civilized peoples and
| lands where the traveller will often be forced
to drag his bicycle over mountain passes or
| carry 1t across uDbridged streams, is an I'M
dertaking calculated to call out all the dar-
| ing, the GOODNESS and the hardihood of any,
body venturesome enough to undertake it,
Mr.. Thomas Stevens in 1884 commenced such
journey by wheeling from the coast of the
| Pacific to the Atlantic shore of North Ameri-
ca. In the following year Mr.. Stevens, as
the special correspondent of Outing, started
from Liverpool to complete the tour, and
has since then wheeled his way through Eu-
rope and Asia to the east coast of China.
so novel a journey, fraught with dangers
and difficulties, and bringing the bold wheel
man into intimate relations with the people
OF many distant lands, gave an unexcelled
opportunity for the collection of the materi-
al for book of exceptional interest.
MI. Stevens has written narrative abound
Ing with interesting descriptions of the see
merry and places through which his route lay.
The travellers experiences with the people
of countries far removed from centres of civ
ilization, are told with humorous .apprecia
ton of the trials of a man among people
whose ways are strange to him and with
whom hn FOL ", 10,
Stevens's animated sketches make excellent
Illustrations for the story. The book, be-
sides being Of interest as tale of adventure
and exploration, is valuable work upon
the nature and scenery of the countries
through which Mr.. Stevens passed. and the
government, customs and lives of their in
habitants. The first volume takes the tray
eler as far as Teheran. The book is hand
somely bound in cloth. (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short &
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